Rhetorical and Communication Theory: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations PUblished in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1982 (Vol. 43 Nos. 1 through 6).

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This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) the role and relationship of discourse and context; (2) political autonomy and accommodation to political alternatives as two major dimensions of political socialization; (3) rhetorical criticism of television commercials as a prologue to a rhetoric of television; (4) a rhetorical view of televised professional football; (5) a formulation and partial test of a rules-based theory of interpersonal persuasion; (6) a subjective message construct theory of persuasion; (7) the utility of an interpersonal rhetoric in the understanding of contemporary value choice; (8) message preference, world view orientations, and college alumni interests; and (9) rhetorical discourse in revolutionary guerrilla warfare. (JL)